Art theft: some of the famous art heists of the last 100 years

Self portrait of Rembrandt and the Renoir paintings "Jeune Parisienne"
and "Conversation". Armed thieves snatched the three paintings
from the Swedish National Museum.

In 2010, in a James Bond-style art heist, three masked robbers ran into the
waterfront Swedish National Museum with a machine gun, and kept police busy
with decoy bombs planted round the city while they went through the
gallery's art collection. They made their getaway with $30 million worth of
paintings by leaping into a waiting speedboat. Eventually eight men were
convicted and all three paintings, two Renoirs and a Rembrandt recovered.